June 19, 2013

Post: Percona Welcomes Morgan Tocker and Matt Yonkovit

… announce the addition of Morgan Tocker and Matt Yonkovit! Morgan has been with us for a while. Before joining Percona, Morgan worked as a… worked in the MySQL Support Team, and provided DRBD support. Morgan will be focusing on Percona’s new training initiative. Matt… a valuable member of both our consulting and development teams. Morgan and Matt, a big welcome! we are fortunate indeed that…

Post: Presentations Announcement: 2010 O'Reilly MySQL Conference & Expo

… Zaitsev Diagnosing and Fixing MySQL Performance Problems Author: Baron Schwartz, Morgan Tocker EXPLAIN Demystified Author: Baron Schwartz HA Solutions for MySQL Author… of IO As a Bottleneck Author: Morgan Tocker XtraBackup Hot Backups and More Author: Vadim Tkachenko, Morgan Tocker You can also read more about…

Post: Video: The InnoDB Storage Engine for MySQL

… has been posted online: The InnoDB Storage Engine for MySQL – Morgan Tocker from PHP UK Conference on Vimeo. It relates to InnoDB…, the talk “Introduction to the InnoDB Storage Engine for MySQL” (Morgan Tocker) at Collaborate, “Innodb and XtraDB Architecture and Performance Optimization” (Peter…

Post: Percona sessions at the MySQL conference

… informative technical talks on various topics. Here’s a list: Morgan Tocker, Baron Schwartz: Diagnosing and Fixing MySQL Performance Problems Peter Zaitsev… Technologies are Transforming MySQL Server Performance and the Datacenter Architectures Morgan Tocker: Understanding the Role of IO As a Bottleneck Baron Schwartz…

Comment: Aligning IO on a hard disk RAID – the Theory

…. Regarding RAID stripe size: during DBA classes in August, 2010 Morgan Tocker mentioned that it makes sense using larger stripe size than…

Comment: A few administrative updates

[...] Yes, this is the same as our InnoDB course we taught last week in Santa Clara and San Francisco.  More venues are coming in the next couple of days – wait for another blog post! Posted by Morgan Tocker [...]

Comment: Why you don't want to shard.

“On the MySQL Performance Blog, Morgan Tocker explains why you don’t want to shard. (It has nothing to do with The Dark Crystal, I already checked.) [...]” Log Buffer #158

Post: Announcing Percona Training Workshops for InnoDB and XtraDB

… Clara and San Francisco.  The course was developed by Morgan Tocker with input from all our team – and covers a lot…

Comment: The Percona Performance Presentations Are Online

Slide request :-) – Linux Filesystems: Who, What and Where (Stewart Smith, Sun Microsystems) – Quick wins with third party MySQL patches (Morgan Tocker, Percona)